Healthcare Staffing · B2B

AI-Assisted Travel Nurse Recruitment Platform

The AI does the reading. Recruiters do the deciding. Most of this project was working out exactly where that line sits.

Role

Product Designer

PLatform

B2B Enterprise Web App

Status

Shipped (2025)

Industry

Healthcare Staffing

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Project Overview

FlexCare is an AI-powered recruitment platform built for healthcare staffing agencies to streamline the hiring of travel nurses. By automating candidate qualification, credential verification, and intelligent job matching, it enables recruiters to focus on faster, more confident hiring decisions while retaining full control over the recruitment process.

Problem

Recruiters spent hours manually reviewing applications, validating licenses, and comparing candidates across multiple systems. This repetitive process slowed hiring and made it difficult to scale recruitment.

Solution

Designed an AI-assisted recruitment workflow that automates candidate intake, credential validation, intelligent job matching, and recruiter insights while keeping every hiring decision human-led.

Results

A workflow built to collapse manual verification into a single review step, replace one opaque score with an inspectable one, and give recruiters a ranked shortlist instead of a spreadsheet.

  • Validate the licenses & Certifications

  • Check the expiry date

  • Compare the specialty

  • Next application

  • Ask Missing Details

  • Compare availability

  • Validate the licenses & Certifications

  • Check the expiry date

  • Compare the specialty

  • Next application

  • Ask Missing Details

  • Compare availability

The Challenge

Healthcare staffing is a race against time. Recruiters often manage hundreds of travel nurse applications while juggling license verification, credential checks, job matching, and candidate communication. Most of this work is repetitive and manual, leaving less time for evaluating the right candidates.

The challenge wasn't access to information. It was turning fragmented information into confident hiring decisions.

Process

One point of contact, and a deadline.

The project ran over two weeks with the client's Product Manager as the only stakeholder. He shared the requirements, explained the healthcare domain, and validated decisions through the existing PRD.

Without access to recruiters, I researched AI patterns across recruitment platforms outside healthcare to understand what had become standard and what still needed explanation. That informed features like confidence scoring and explainability, while keeping the solution aligned with the existing product architecture.

Constraints

  • One stakeholder throughout the project.

  • No direct access to recruiters or end users.

  • Cross-industry pattern research instead of formal user research.

  • Product decisions validated through the Product Manager.

Where AI Adds Value

Instead of replacing recruiters, AI supports them throughout the recruitment journey by handling repetitive tasks and surfacing insights before human review.

Extracts and structures candidate information

Generates AI-powered candidate summaries

Provides transparent scoring to support recruiter decisions

Validates licenses and credentials

Recommends best-fit candidates for open roles

Design Goal

Reduce repetitive analysis while preserving recruiter accountability.

Automation trade-offs

How much automation, function by function

The question was never whether the AI should do a thing. It was how much of it, and what the recruiter got back in exchange. I made those calls myself. The only thing I took to the PM was whether something could be built inside the architecture they already had.

From application to submission

The AI does the reading at the front and the ranking in the middle. Every point where something actually happens to a nurse is a recruiter.

Open Jobs & AI Intake Queue

Recruiters start with a list of open travel nursing jobs showing key details such as priority, pay, duration, certifications, and facility. AI continuously identifies the strongest candidate matches based on specialty, location, pay, shift preference, licenses, and availability.

Selecting Review opens the AI Intake Queue, where recruiters can review AI-qualified candidates independently of specific jobs. Recruiters can then review a candidate and assign them to the appropriate job for submission.

Job & Candidate Matching

Instead of asking recruiters to manually search through hundreds of nurse profiles, the system analyzes every available candidate the moment Find Matches is clicked. AI compares each profile against the job requirements, including specialty, location, expected pay, preferred shift, active licenses, and availability, then ranks candidates by an overall Match Score.

Recruiters can immediately see why someone is a strong fit, review a detailed compatibility breakdown for each criterion, and submit the best candidates in just a few clicks.

AI continuously analyzes every candidate profile against all open travel nursing roles. It extracts structured information from resumes, including specialty, certifications, work history, location, availability, pay expectations, and shift preferences, then automatically qualifies and prioritizes candidates based on their overall fit.

Recruiters can review the highest-ranked candidates, understand the reasoning behind each recommendation through a detailed compatibility breakdown, compare profiles, contact candidates, or submit the best-qualified talent to open roles.

Review

Rather than reviewing resumes, certifications, and online profiles separately, recruiters can validate everything from one screen. AI summarizes the candidate's background, verifies available information, flags missing requirements, and organizes completed and pending validations.

Once the profile is fully reviewed, recruiters can confidently add the candidate to the Matching Pool, creating a shortlist of qualified candidates ready to be matched with suitable travel nursing jobs.

Approved Candidates

The Candidate Pool is the qualified list of candidates who have completed the AI intake and review process. These candidates are ready to be matched to open jobs and submitted for assignments.

Recruiters can open a candidate’s profile and review all relevant information in one place, including credential and license verifications, availability, previous assignments, feedback, quality scores, and overall experience. This gives recruiters a complete view of the candidate and helps them quickly determine whether the candidate is qualified and suitable for a job.

Once the candidate has been reviewed and finalized, the recruiter can move forward with the submission process.

Profile Submission

When the recruiter clicks Add to Job, a list of available jobs appears, showing key details such as role, facility, location, start date, pay, and priority. Recruiters can select a suitable job and submit the candidate directly.

Design Principles

Human-in-the-Loop AI

AI assists, recruiters decide.

Explainable AI

Recommendations are supported with transparent reasoning.

Reduce Repetitive Work

Automate operational tasks, not decision-making.

Decision-First Design

Every screen helps recruiters answer the next question quickly.

What I have instead of metrics

I moved to another project shortly after handoff, so I don't have adoption metrics or placement data.

What I do have is the client's feedback. After reviewing the platform, the FlexCare client said,

This is what I wanted.

The Product Manager called me afterwards to share how happy the client was with the design and the overall workflow.

Thank you!

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